A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
AGNES REPPLIEROur belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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